Bead-necklace tip



March 2 1926.

R. G. GRODE BEAD NECKLACE TIP Filed June 1925 did a.

Patented Mar. 2,

RUDOLPH G. GRODE, F NORWOOD, RHODE ISLAND.

READ-NECKLACE TIP.

Application filed June 20, 1925. Serial No. 38,444.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that a citizen of the United Norwood, in the county I, RUDOLPH G. Gnonn, States, residmg at of Kent and State of Rhode Island, have invented new and Bead-Necklace Tips,

useful Improvements in ed to securely confine,

and at the same time conceal, a terminal portion of a cord con- .necting the heads.

I attain this and other related objects by the improved construction hereinafter described and claimed.

Of the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification,

Figure 1 is a side view,

on an enlarged scale, of a portion of a bead necklace including my 1mpr0ved tip.

Figure 2 is a section on ure 1.

line 2-2 of Fig- Figure 3 is an end view of the body member of the tip.

Figure 4 is a section on line 4-4 of Figure 3.

Figure 5 is an end view of the head member of the tip.

Figure 6 is a section on line 66 of Figure 5.

The same reference characters indicate the same parts 1n all of the figures.

In the drawings,

the beads of a necklace,

12, 12 designate some of and 18 the cord connecting the beads.

The tip in which bodied is preferably and constitutes an my invention is emsubstantially spherlcal end member of the necklace, its construction being as next described. 11 designates a hollow ber, preferably a ball, clamping face 15, and

ner orifices 16 and body mem having an external coaxial outer and in- The margin of the inner orifice 17 constitutes a seat for the adjacent bead 12. 18

designates a head having an internal clamping face 19, conformto the external ing face 15, a tubular shank 20, inserted in the outer orifice 16, a slot 21 opening on the outer margin of the head,

and an outwardly projecting coupling eye 22, engaging a link of a short chain 23,

wh onnects a c tiplasp member 24 with the 25 designates a helical expansion spring, seated on the internal surface of the head and on an abutment 26, on the shank 20. The spring normally presses the head member toward the external clamping face of the body member.

A terminal portion of the cord 13 is passed through the shank 20 and across the portion of the head member between the shank and the slot 21. The free portion of the cord is then manipulated to dispose the same in a series of convolutions 13 between the clamping faces of the body and head members, as indicated by Figures, 1 and 2. The interposition of the cord between said faces forces the head member slightly outward and somewhat increases the tension of the spring 25. The convolutions 13 are therefore securely clamped and concealed between the clamping faces. The surplus end of the cord may be cut off, so that it does not pro ject from the head.

The body member preferably includes a larger inner zone and a smaller outer zone forming the clamping face 15. The head member is preferably concavo-convex, its convex side forming a continuation of the larger zone of the head, so that the body and head members collectively form a substantially spherical tip, resembling a bead 12 in form and size.

I claim:

1. A bead necklace tip comprising a. hollow body member having an external clamping face and coaxial outer and inner orifices, the margin of the inner orifice constituting a bead seat; a head member haying any internal clamping face conforming to the external clamping face, a tubular shank inserted in the outer orifice of the body member, a slot opening on the outer margin of the head, and an outwardly projecting coupling eye; and an expansion spring seated on the internal surface of the body member and on an abutment on the tubular shank, and normally pressing the head member toward the clamping face of the body member, the arrangement being such that a terminal portion of a necklace cord extending through a string of beads, may be passed through the tubular shank, across a portion of the outer surface of the head member and into the slot, and disposed in convolutions between the clamping faces of the head and body members, said convolutions face, forming a continuation of the larger being confined by the clamping faces. zone of the body member, so that the said 2. A bead necklace tip as specified by members collectively form a snbstantially 10 claim 1, the body member being a ball having spherical tip. 5 larger and smaller zones the smaller zone In testimony whereof I have afiixed my constituting the external clamping face, the signatnrc.

head member having a convex-external sur RUDOLPH G. GRODE. 

